Select Fridays between September 2015 and May 2016, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center becomes an intellectual salon. Scholars at Hallwalls features eight thought-provoking, award-winning lectures in the humanities, presented in the intellectual and inspiring setting of Hallwalls. Faculty Fellows will present their cutting-edge humanities research in terms accessible to those in other disciplines and outside academia. The events will continue to be social occasions as well, with complimentary hors d'oeuvres...
All lectures are free and open to the public.
From Medicine to Mysticism: The Storied Life of the Hebrew Microcosm
She will trace the transformation of the late antique medical microcosm to the kabbalistic Primordial Man, or the kabbalistic tree of life iconic to Jewish mysticism. While the model of the microcosm initially served to organize the principles of anatomy, late antique and medieval writers reimagined the macrocosm as the divine. With this the human body became a model for both the cosmos and the divine, at the base of the Jewish mystical model.
